(3/3) Francis van Bossuit was one of the most influential and important ivorists working in Italy and the Low Countries during the latter half of the seventeenth century. His status is attested by the copperplate compendium in a large format (1727) in which the Dutch copperplate engraver Matthijs Pool presented the sculptor’s œuvre in a series of ninety-five plates. In his introduction to this sumptuous publication, Pool outlined Bossuit’s unusual biography: born in Brussels in 1635, the artist went to Antwerp before setting out ca 1655 for Italy, where he ‘spent his youth and the best years of his life’. He lingered in Rome for about twenty-five years. Before 1685 he returned to the Netherlands and settled in Amsterdam, where he worked until his death in 1692.
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Saint Mary Magdalene
Francis van Bossuit (1635–1692)
Amsterdam, ca 1680
Ivory, modern iron base
Height 14.5 cm, width 12 cm, depth 2 cm
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